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At slightly over a quarter of the way through, this book feels more like a documentary than a novel. There's lots here to think about, though, and the insights into marketing strategies and their impacts on the family unit are eye opening enough that the absence of a plot conflict (so far) almost doesn't matter.

I downloaded this book on a whim. The main character's pilot girlfriend smacked of Starship Troopers, and I didn't expect much from the book - but it's turned out to be the first honest-to-Starwalker space opera page turner I've read since the last Dan Abnett book I read.

This one is tough sledding so far. The reader doesn't get an introduction to the characters so much as a core dump, and I'm not being drawn into the story. I'll stick with it and see if it improves.

Really enjoying this, so far. Interesting characters and, although Berney is compared to Leonard, none of the peculiarities of grammar and style that make Leonard a bit rough.

A bit slower to develop than the previous couple Bacigalupi page turners. I'm not overly fond of world building that makes you read too much between the lines. Maybe Windup Girl is one of a series, and I came in at the middle.

Got a little ways in, but had to put it aside when The Tehran Initiative came available from the library.

I love Westerns. Pretty standard stuff, so far, but a fun read. Again with the "its/it's" grammar errors, though. Doesn't anyone proof books before publishing them any more?

Glad I stuck with this one. The middle portion of the book is a sort of history lesson about the political events that took place in Iran in the late 1970s. I wasn't paying a lot of attention at the time, so I found it interesting. In the later stages, the story is proceeding about like I expected, but it's a page turner.

A little slow getting started. I hope all this back story has a purpose.

Abandoned. I did my best to grit my teeth and slog through the horrible grammar and simplistic storytelling. At about the halfway point, the author wrote in a sex scene between the android and the heroine, and I decided I'd had enough.

A bit hard to stay in the story, as Michael's dialogue is rife with we're/were, your/you're, there/their/they're errors and the like. If this is intentional, it's pointless, because these are all approximate homophones. Also, I added this book to Goodreads, only to find the same ASIN and description under a different title: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13...

At a little more than half way through this, I recommend it. Kind of like a cross between Dan Brown and Ken Follett.

I'm enjoying this quite a bit. Leonard's prose isn't as polished as some, but it somehow seems appropriate to a crime novel. His dialogue reads just like that of the characters in the FX show, Justified, so there's no clash between the book Raylan and Timothy Olyphant's portrayal of him.